Not meta, exactly.  Inspired by the battlefield meta that hooves posted over on fandom, I finally published the second and third installments of "Lucky Horseshoes," the unheroic exploits of Norne in the War of Heroes.

Most of my in-depth knowledge of the day to day workings of an army comes from the American Civil War, which of course postdates the "medieval ( Read more... )

Nothing like having another novelization of your pet game on your tail to spur you into an update.  I'd been sitting on this chapter for yonks, but the second half wasn't finished, so I just chopped the chapter in two and released this half.  Yay?

So, Norne the spunky volunteer is starting to falter; the war just keeps getting more complicated, and ( Read more... )

So, about a year ago, as I was working through my FE12-induced "issues," I started on this.  A silly and derivative little slice-of-life story with a rotating POV and only the faintest wisp of a plot.  Obviously it was not high on my priority list of Things to Finish.  But I did finish it, and since it's (gasp!) genfic, I decided to post the thing ( Read more... )

sailorvfan10 , this is your fault.  I've been sitting on this chapter since JUNE of last year, but since you mentioned Norne-epics...

Well.

Anyway, at this point this story's been out there for the better part of two years.  It's not that I don't know where it's going-- the final chapter is already done and I have no intention of changing it.  The problem is ( Read more... )

Haven't done a legit food post in a while, so here goes:

Fuyu persimmons, the ones that look like orange tomatoes, have been in shops for a while, but I finally scored a pair of large Hachiya persimmons last week.  Those are the ones that must-- MUST-- be ripened to mush before they are edible.  If you've ever eaten an under-ripe banana and got that ( Read more... )

 OK.  Just posted Chapter One of a three-part giftfic.  It's not here, and it's not at ffnet, and it's not at my DA account.

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 So, I've made scant progress on my fe_contest  entry (got about 600 words in), as it's been a very active weekend and the writing time I have had was allocated to Norne.

Lucky Horseshoes is basically going to be just a series of sketches-- chronological but not necessarily linked-- about the misadventures of Norne and her circle of comrades during the War of ( Read more... )

 So, I promised myself I'd stick all the FE3-inspired stuff to one side and concentrate on my backlog of FE11 stories.  My Norne-centered account of the War of Darkness is high on the list of shamefully half-finished works, as I'd not updated it since August.  But a recent blast through some books on the American Civil War got me inspired enough to ( Read more... )

 I had a feeling that reading about Custer and Sitting Bull would unlock something in my brain, but I'd hoped it would be a 'fic involving actual in-depth battle scenes, like "To Freely Serve" (Norne 'Fic) or "Widening Gyre" (Peg Sis 'Fic).  Instead, I ended up flying through the second installment in my planned Caeda Trilogy, "The View From A ( Read more... )

No, it's not discontinued. I simply have to retool some things. Basically, I decided to fully embrace the possibilities of having a 'fic based around a gaiden character from FEDS. Norne's very existence shoots a hole in FE3 canon-- if we follow the game script, replacing her for Gordin basically dooms both George and Astram in the War of Heroes ( Read more... )